-The Times of India A woman tehsildar had a narrow escape from being mowed down by an earth extractor machine in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district on Tuesday when she tried to stop illegal mining. The incident comes barely a month after an IPS Officer Narendra Kumar was crushed to death by the mining mafia in Morena. Acting on a tip-off on largescale illegal mining in the district, the tehsildar, Meena Pal, rushed...
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CBI to probe cop killing by Rasheed Kidwai
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan today ordered a CBI investigation into last week’s murder of IPS officer Narendra Kumar, allegedly by mining mafia. Chauhan said he was responding to an appeal by Madhurani, the slain officer’s widow who is an IAS officer in the state, and not clamours from the Congress. The Opposition party has been demanding a probe by the agency and called a bandh today to protest the...
More »IPS blood on resource mafia by Rasheed Kidwai
A young IPS officer who stood in the path of a tractor-trolley carrying illegally mined stones after the driver ignored his calls to stop was crushed to death under the vehicle in Madhya Pradesh yesterday. The death of Narendra Kumar, 30, has blown the lid off entrenched syndicates that cart off natural resources after carving up the mineral-rich regions of the state among themselves with alleged patronage from players belonging to...
More »Mining mafia rules as govt sleeps by Sravani Sarkar
In a state where mining mafia has become audacious enough to allegedly kill a young IPS officer, the mineral resources department does not even keep record of its minister’s periodic review of illegal mining, storage and transportation. This shocking state of affairs in the department has been laid bare by the department’s reply to a recent RTI application. The RTI plea was filed in December 2011 with the mineral resources department...
More »Mining mafia mows down young IPS officer in Morena by Mahim Pratap Singh
A young IPS officer was crushed to death by the mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district, over 450 km from here, on Thursday. Narendra Kumar, 30, who was posted as a Sub-Divisional Police Officer at Banmore in Morena on probation, tried to stop a tractor carrying illegally quarried stones but the driver ran over him, DIG Chambal range D.P. Gupta was quoted in the press as saying. Mr. Kumar...
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